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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by blagie on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:58AM (#39260779)
I took notes in LaTeX in my college. I didn't need macros or the fancy editor setup. It's not hard. It turned passive learning into active. I didn't have a few of the formatting nuances as pretty as he did (e.g. boxes around theorems), but that's not hard.

The key difference between him and me are the figures. It's worth looking at his notes here:

https://castel.dev/notes

The figures are beautiful.

How?!?!?!?

(Footnote due to recent bad experiences to pre-empt stupid answers: "Inkscape" is not an answer. I use Inkscape, and I know how long these things would take me. It's definitely not something I could do anywhere close to real-time. I want to know what conceivable workflow in Inkscape would allow those sorts of figures in even a significant fraction of lecture speed, let alone real-time)

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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by ykonstant on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:09AM (#39260855)
Using TikZ and UltiSnips in vim, you can create figures very quickly; the following took me 2-3 minutes to make (I had the datafile beforehand):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eLe0LdKqPyPdmXel_3DwP9AZcIQ...

I don't know about real-time, though; I'd never try to draw figures in real time.

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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by reuben364 on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:20AM (#39260939)
I didn't expect Lean 4 in this context.
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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by ykonstant on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:40AM (#39261089)
I use it a lot for all kinds of programming, including generating, formatting and processing data for various datasets; it is very convenient if you know how to make it work fast (it is not always easy).
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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by bilegeek on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:06AM (#39260832)
>I want to know what conceivable workflow in Inkscape would allow those sorts of figures in even a significant fraction of lecture speed, let alone real-time

https://github.com/gillescastel/inkscape-shortcut-manager

https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

I've also done LaTeX for notes (in EMACS), but was never happy with how things looked when doing everything quick. The sheer genius of the setup he made is eye-opening.

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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by oa335 on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:05AM (#39260824)
I’m also wondering about how they made the figures, to be that is the most interesting and important bit.
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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by ilayn on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:02AM (#39260811)
TikZ and pgfplots
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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by Xerox9213 on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:22AM (#39260960)
https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

It’s not just Inkscape, it’s well configured Inkscape.

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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by c2xlZXB5Cg1 on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:10AM (#39261354)
Starting inkscape inline from the editor is such a small and simple detail but does so much for staying focused on the main activity of writing.
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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by NBJack on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:29AM (#39261547)
OneNote with a pressure sensitive stylus?
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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by guyomes on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:39AM (#39261657)
I found that ipe [1] is a nice alternative to inkscape. It has less features than inkscape, however the latex integration is better for math formula.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipe_(software)

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